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'HERMAN IS the county seat of Grayson county and the center of the great cotton and wheat belt of 
Texas. The wheat-growing districts of Northwestern Texas and the Indian Territory sum up to five 
times tlie extent of those of Minnesota and produce a quality of wheat unsurpassed even by that of 
California. Tlie country tributary to Sherman is rich also in coal, iron and timber. Corn grows as lux- 
uriously as in Kansas and commands a better price owing to the nearness to the Gulf markets. But the 
chief product so far is cotton, the splendid quality of which brings for it the highest prices in foreign and 
New England markets. Potatoes and other vegetables furnish a profitable crop for eariy shipment to the 
North. ''Apples, peaches, plums, cherries, apricots, nectarines, grapes, berries and other fruits grow 
abundantly. The mild climate and ample water supply produce luxuriant grass the year round and make 
this a natural stock country. 

Five trunk lines of railroad pass through Sherman and give promise of building up not only a large 
city, but a great manufacturing and shipping center. New railways are constructing, among them the 
Sherman, Dallas & Denison, and the Sherman & Northwestern. 

The'population of Sherman numbers 12,600, and is cosmopolitan in its mixture of people from the 
East, North, West, and foreign countries with those of the South. From this salient feature has developed 
an easy self-command, liberal and broad views, personal industry and public enterprise; also a genuine 
sympathy with new-comers, who will contribute to the development of trade and manufactures. 

The MERCHANTS' AND PLANTERS' NATIONAL RANK and the CITY B^NK are rep- 
resented by the ablest and wealthiest men of the state, and have a total paid-up capital of one million and 
a quarter. In the SHERMAN OIL AND COTTON SEED mills and gin $250,000 are invested, and 
this gin is the largest in the world. 



A SEAMLESS BAG AND TWINE MILL, at a cost of $200,000, is to be erected by Galveston and 
home capital, with a capacity of 60,000 sacks every 24 hours. THE ARDMORE COAL MINES, largely 
owned by Sherman people, will soon be connected with the city by tlie Ardmore Railway and brnig coal to 
our city at $1. 50a ton, total cost. Ample fuel for great manufacturing enterprises is further secured by the 
famous coal mines of the Indian Territory. The only extensive coke ovens west of the Mississippi, soyth, 
lie adjacent to Sherman, and, with the fine quality of iron ore found here, a more propftious location for 
blast furnaces and rolling mills could hardly be imagined. 

The natural resources of Sherman are further specially adapted for PACKING and CANNING 
HOUSES, CREAMERIES, COTTON MILLS, FURNITURE, WAGON and AGRICULTURAL 
IMPLEMENT MANUFACTORIES, and many other industries. This want of Sherman appeals to 
outside capitalists and manufacturers, who will find the citizens ready to assist with money and patronage. 

For building purposes, lumber of hard pine, oak and other native woods can be had at an average 
cost of $12.00 per thousand, while a corresponding quality of lumber in the eastern states brings from 
$20.00 to $30.00 per thousand. There is an abundance of blue and grey limestone, red and brown sand- 
stone, also of good brick at reasonable figures. 

Property for the location of factories can be secured at Sherman on better terms than are offered by 
any city in the south-west. Also other business and residence property is held at low prices. The beauti- 
ful suburbs of Woodland, College Park, Highland, Eastern Heights, Glen Springs, Binkley and South- 
Side additions, with electric street railways connecting them, offer great inducements to investors. The 
city and county are without indebtedness or mortgages and the taxation consequently low, while the near 
future is certain to advance all land values in and around Sherman. 



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